not everywhere. different strokes for different folks, I guess. in fact, that would be more the case where I am from, India, where people in general seem to hav

not everywhere. different strokes for different folks, I guess. in fact, that would be more the case where I am from, India, where people in general seem to have thinner skins, compare to the US at least. I know this because I have a background of both places. and also, a senior software architect from a US company where I once worked (in the Indian branch, he was in the US) came on a visit once, and told me personally (I was a dev manager in the Indian branch) that if our US colleagues sometimes seemed to talk a bit roughly, in our conference calls, it was not intentional, but just in the spirit of getting into the topic, making their views felt, and with the goal of coming to a good outcome. and I understood that point and had no issues with it. in any case, i had no intention of insulting you, sorry if you felt that way. maybe I was talking in the same way as that architect described, possibly due to having picked up on that trend, after having worked in that company.